On the 3rd of November 2020, the people of the United States cast their votes on who their 46th president should be: either the current president Donald Trump or the Democratic candidate Joe Biden. On Saturday 7th November, multiple news agencies reported that Joe Biden had won in Pennsylvania, which gave him 273 out of the 270 electors a presidential candidate needs to gain to win an election. According to The Associated Press, Biden won the following states: Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine* which gave him a total of 290 electors while Trump only got 214. However, two states, Georgia and North Carolina, haven’t announced the results from their states yet, which means that Trump or Biden can still get more electors. Since Biden was first with reaching 270 electors, and Trump cannot get that even if he were to win the remaining states, Biden won the election. Trump hasn’t yet admitted himself defeated, and has said he might take it to court since he believes there’s been election fraud, even though he hasn’t provided any evidence for it. 

* = This state has a different elector system. In all the other states the winner takes it all but in this state and in Nebraska the candidates can get a few electors each. In Maine Biden got 3 and Trump 1. In Nebraska Biden got 1 and Trump 4.

President-elect: Joe Biden, 77
Vice President-elect: Kamala Harris, 56



Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden Jr. was born 20th November 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Biden graduated Syracuse University in 1968, where he got this law degree, and in 1970 he was elected to the New Castle County council at the age of 27. In 1972 Biden became the sixth youngest senator in American history. He served as a member of the Senate for six mandates, from 1972 to 2009. During his time as a senator he served as a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and also as the chairman of the committee and as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He resigned as a senator in 2008 when he became the vice president for president Barack Obama, serving as the vice president of the USA from January 20th 2009 to January 20th 2017.

In August 1966 Biden married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University who he was deeply in love with. The married couple had three children together: Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III, Robert Hunter Biden and Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden. In 1968 Biden worked at a local law firm which was led by the local Republican William Pricket. Biden was later recruited by local Republicans but was registered as Independent due to him disliking the Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon. In 1972, when his political career had taken off since he got elected to the Senate, a tragedy hit the Biden family. On 28th of December 1972, Neilia and their three children were involved in a car accident which resulted in the death of Biden’s wife Neilia and their one year old daughter Naomi. Their sons, Beau and Hunter, got injured as well but survived the accident. Biden considered resigning from the senate to take care of his sons but the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, convinced Biden to stay.

In 1975, after a time where he had struggled to feel happy and interested in life and politics, he met his future wife, Jill Tracy Jacobs. They got married in 1977 and celebrated their honeymoon in Lake Balaton, Hungary, and together they have a daughter named Ashley Blazer Biden. Joe Biden and Neilia Hunter’s son, Beau Biden, passed away in 2015 due to brain cancer.



Kamala Devi Harris was born on 20th October 1964 in Oakland, California. She graduated Howard University and the University of California with a law degree and began working for Alameda country district attorney office, then later on for San Francisco district attorney office and after that became the city attorney of San Francisco. In 2016 Harris campaigned for a seat in the Senate, defeating her opponent in a landslide victory. She served as a senator until 2020. Harris was the second African-American senator and the first South Asian American since her parents are from Jamaica and India. In 2019, Harris announced her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, but ended her campaign in December 2019. On the 11th of August 2020 Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, announced that Harris would be his running mate. On the 7th of November 2020, they won the presidential election and Harris made history. She is the first female vice president, the first African-American vice president, and the first South Asian American vice president, which makes her groundbreaking in American political history.

Since 2014 Harris has been married to Douglas Emhoff. The couple do not have any children together, but Douglas has two children from a previous relationship, who call her “Momala” as a replacement for “step-mom”.